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I don't often comment on specific combinations, but...
- I think that bigger spots go better with a box check suit.
- Shoulders are kinda lumpy...did you have someone adjust the upper back, a.k.a. shorten the collar?
- You wear collars that are bigger than your neck, which is fine, but sometimes your knots winch in your collars too close for my taste. Loose collar? Loose knot.
- Love the fabric and the black oxfords.
- Nice puff on the square. I didn't care for the whale, this is good.
- I can't tell if the color combination is a big win or a big fail on my iPad. Plus, it is getting late in Ambergris Caye.

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Overall, I agree with Foo on everything; excellent critiques. I just want to add that wider jacket sleeves often bunch up more and reveal more cuff than narrower ones. Regardless of the aesthetic, that has been an issue in my wider jackets and I'm considering slimming them down.
Of course, the main issue would be the way the armhole was cut, but narrower sleeves might help by getting "trapped" by the shirt sleeves, or at least pulling the shirt up a bit, too. Thoughts?

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I had the sleeves of my suit made as slim as they are because of the fabric.

I've found that when a suit or SC is made from a very thick and course fabric, you can have the sleeves and body of the jacket cut more fully and not run into the problem of strange wrinkles. When the fabric is very thick, the sleeves don't wrinkle and bunch up in an unsightly way when you move. Ideally, my suit sleeves would have been more full.

However, the fabric I chose was fairly light-weight. When you are dealing with a thin fabric, and the sleeves are too large in circumference, you get the wrinkles depicted in ClarinetPlayer's photos below. These wrinkles, to me, suggest that the sleeves are too big, and certainly don't look attractive. The bunching (sleeve stacking, I suppose) that I'm getting on my black suit sleeves also doesn't look good, but in my opinion it looks better than the wrinkles that would be happening if the sleeves were more full. It suggests that my suit was cut to fit me. Full sleeves (with thin fabric) look good when you're doing the to robopose, but not when you're moving around.

At least, that's the justification for my design choices. The black suit is my first bespoke suit, and I've found that designing your own suits is very educational. I don't pretend to be a sartorial demi-god, so I'd love to hear other people's opinions.

Eventually, I'm going to write some kind of blog post or SF thread about the tailor (Nick Lopez) and my experiences with him, including robopose pictures of the suit and pictures of the tailor's shop, since there isn't a lot of info about him on the interwebz.